Swiss attorney general also opens proceedings against Jérôme ValckeThe chairman of high-spending Paris Saint-Germain and the http://www.coltsnflofficialproshop.com/WOMENS_YOUTH_REGGIE_WAYNE_JERSEY.html powerful sports broadcaster beIN, both owned by Authentic Benardrick McKinney Jersey Qatar state funds, has been accused in Switzerland of criminally bribing the former Fifa secretary general Jérôme Valcke to buy TV rights to World Cup tournaments. Nasser al-Khelaifi, one of the most powerful figures in European and world football because Pete Maravich Authentic Jersey of Ramik Wilson Jersey PSG’s and beIN’s Qatari backing and Fifa’s controversial vote for Qatar to host the 2022 World Cup, was named as the subject of a criminal proceeding by the Swiss attorney general’s office (OAG) on Thursday.In an announcement that revealed a new dimension to the corruption scandals and criminal investigations that have Womens Albert Wilson Jersey engulfed football’s world governing body since 2015, Khelaifi was accused of bribing Valcke in connection with the award of TV rights for the 2026 and 2030 World Cups. beIN Sports has bought from Fifa the rights to broadcast those tournaments to countries in the Middle East and north Africa.Following a request from the OAG to legal authorities in France, searches were carried out at beIN’s offices at Boulogne-Billancourt in Paris, where http://www.officialminnesotawild.com/Adidas-Jared-Spurgeon-Jersey the broadcaster – and PSG – dominate French football. The broadcaster, of which Khelaifi is the chief http://www.authenticrangersshop.com/authentic-7-rod-gilbert-jersey.html executive as well as chairman, said in a statement: “beIN refutes all accusations made by OAG. The company will fully cooperate with the authorities and is confident as to the future developments of the investigation.”The OAG said it had also opened a new criminal proceeding against Valcke and an unnamed figure in the sports rights business, who is accused of having bribed Valcke in connection with the award of media rights for the 2018 World Cup in Russia, 2022 in Qatar and the 2026 and 2030 tournaments.“It is suspected that Jérôme Valcke accepted undue advantages” from both men in relation to the tournaments, the OAG said in a statement.Khelaifi, Valcke and the unnamed businessman are collectively suspected of bribery, fraud, criminal mismanagement and forgery of a document, in a criminal proceeding – effectively an investigation rather than charges – ongoing since 20 March this year. Legal authorities in France, Greece, Italy and Spain cooperated with this area of the Swiss criminal investigation and “properties were searched in various locations”.Khelaifi, said to be a friend and close associate of the Qatar Emir, Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, took over as the chairman and chief executive of PSG after a sovereign wealth fund, Qatar Sports Investments, bought the then ailing club in 2011. The purchase followed a November 2010 lunch the Emir had at the Élysée Palace with the then French president Nicolas Sarkozy and the then Uefa president Michel Platini, at which Platini as a Fifa executive committee member was urged to vote for Qatar to host the 2022 World Cup. Platini later confirmed he did change his vote from the United States to Qatar but denied he was influenced by the lunch.QSI bought PSG, whom Sarkozy supports, six months after the Fifa vote and have since spent hundreds of millions of pounds on players to take the club to the latter rounds of the Champions League. The spending culminated in this summer’s record-breaking £198m purchase of Neymar from Barcelona and signing Kylian Mbappé from Monaco for £167m, which led to Uefa opening a formal investigation into whether the club is complying with financial fair play break-even rules. PSG have said they are complying.